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Media & Policy News: 14 March 2014

March 14, 2014

Top Stories

CCPA Ontario report released today says Ontario’s job market undergoing a “seismic shift”:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/03/14/ontarios_job_market_undergoing_seismic_shift_from_full_to_parttime_jobs.html

  • Here’s the report: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/node/12183

Dennis Raphael asks why Canadians aren’t being told the truth about disease:
http://www.thespec.com/opinion-story/4405922-why-are-canadians-not-being-told-the-truth-about-disease-/

Toby Sanger says, “It’s the distribution of capital, stupid”:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/in-a-world-awash-in-cash-capital-overwhelms-us-now/article17368619/#dashboard/follows/

Upstream launches “Poverty Costs” campaign to build support for poverty reduction in Saskatchewan:

  • Coverage: http://metronews.ca/news/saskatoon/967349/new-campaign-rallying-support-for-poverty-reduction-plan-in-saskatchewan/
  • Campaign website: http://pover-upstream.nationbuilder.com/
  • Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT0lacXXZ_Y

Here’s what Terri-Lynn Garrie’s human rights case shows about what disabled workers can face:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/plight-exploited-disabled-workers-brought-light-ontario-woman-235931962.html

Ontario can be a mean place when you have a mental illness:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/marvin-ross/ontario-mental-health-programs_b_4934100.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

Reports and Events

City of Toronto’s “Guide to Services for People who are Homeless”:
http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=6300ee5c3ed91410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD&vgnextchannel=cfa2d62869211410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD&vgnextfmt=default

Faith and community groups join with local MPP for a North Toronto Community Townhall on Income Inequality:
https://www.facebook.com/events/481071438664950/

Around the Province

Anti-poverty advocate joins mayoral race in Windsor:
http://metronews.ca/news/windsor/969464/anti-poverty-advocate-joins-mayoral-race-in-windsor/

Hamilton landlords cited twice as frequently this year for leaving the heat off:
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/4403224-more-landlords-cited-for-freezing-out-tenants/

Deplorable living conditions for low-income tenants detailed in new report:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014/03/12/highrise_hell_for_lowincome_families_in_toronto.html

Toronto expands and renames is “priority” neighbourhoods, uses new metrics:
http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/toronto2014election/2014/03/09/toronto_to_expand_priority_neighbourhoods_to_31.html

Sheila Block says Toronto needs to pay for services, and taxes are where it’s at:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/03/11/toronto_is_falling_behind_in_paying_for_needed_services.html

Tax rebate coming for Caledon ice storm destruction for seniors and people with disabilities:
http://www.caledonenterprise.com/news-story/4410744-ice-storm-relief-coming-for-low-income-seniors-and-disabled/

Across the Country

New EI “zones” in PEI deemed destructive:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/ei-changes-destructive-says-mp-lawrence-macaulay-1.2570357

National

Goar: New CLC report shows why the labour market hasn’t recovered:
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2014/03/13/why_canadas_job_market_hasnt_recovered_goar.html

Press Progress on the CCPA’s recent report on retirement income, and why expanding the CPP is a no brainer:
http://www.pressprogress.ca/en/post/why-expanding-cpp-no-brainer

UFCW report on the “Great Canadian Rip-Off” of temporary foreign workers:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1789475

Whose incomes have grown the most since the 1980s? Take a guess:
http://www.pressprogress.ca/en/post/why-its-awesome-be-top-001-canada

Broadbent Institute survey finds millennials concerned about economic future:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/millennials-boomers-fret-about-tough-economic-future/article17422245/#dashboard/follows/

  • Here’s the Broadbent Institute’s New Deal for Young People project website: http://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/en/newdeal

International

UK sister of man who died after benefits were cut off demands an apology:
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/yourtown/witney/11064035.Sister_demands_apology_for_brother___s_death_by_starvation/

Australia billionaire Gina Rinehart says her country needs a dose of Thatcherism:
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/mar/06/gina-reinhart-australia-needs-thatcherism

Billy Bragg says Thatcher’s legacy is nothing for Australia to wish for:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/11/gina-rinehart-like-margaret-thatcher-before-her-seeks-to-divide-and-conquer?view=desktop

Michelle Bachelet takes over in Chile, vows to fight inequality:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/11/us-chile-bachelet-inauguration-idUSBREA2A20V20140311

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